7 September 1862 in Rotherham,
West Riding of Yorkshire[registered in
Rotherham, September 1862].Evidently, the Sayer family are from
Northumberland, moved to Durham c.1856, then to Rotherham before
1862, and to Mexborough in 1863, after James was born.

Baptised

4 October 1863 in St. John the
Baptist Church, Mexborough. It is these
notes that give us his birthdate.

Census Notes

According to the
1871 census, James is the fourth of the seven children to Thomas and
Elizabeth, living at 164 Dotcliff Road in Mexborough. His father is a
forgeman.

According to the
1881 census, James is a clerk at the local foundry and is the oldest of
the three children from his father's first marriage. They live with their
father, who is an iron worker and has since remarried, to Harriet, and
they have four young children, they all live at 3 Chapel Walk in
Mexborough.

Despite just being
married, neither James, or Eliza Maud, can be found on the 1891 census.

According to the 1901 census,
James is now married to Maud, they have one son, James. He is a Pottery
Commercial Traveller, and they live at Rose Villa, Regent Street in Stoke
with one servant.

According to the 1911 census,
James is still married and still have one son. He is still a commercial
traveller, and along with one servant, they now all live at Hillcrest, 69
James Street in Stoke.

Married

to Eliza Maud Brown
[registered in Stoke-on-Trent, March 1891].
A James Sayer was later married or remarried in Stoke, registered
in December 1920, to Beatrice Hassalls

Died

1 February 1922, in
Stoke-on-Trent,
aged
59 years 147 days[registered in Stoke-on-Trent, March 1922].

Height/Weight

not known

Source

Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com

Club Career

Club(s)

Began his
career with Mexborough FC, before joining Heeley FC, and
Wednesday FC. Eventually joined Stoke FC;

Club honours

None

Individual honours

None

Distinctions

None

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].

Sayer was
secretary of a Stoke pottery company. He later became the director of
Fielding Ltd (manufacturer of Devon pottery). - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming
(1990). Hatton Press, p.217.

Jimmy Sayer - Career Statistics

Squads

Apps

Comp.
Apps

Mins.

Goals

Goals
Av.min

Comp.
Goals

Capt.

Disc.

1

1

1

90

0

0
min

0

none

none

Due to the fact that
many matches rarely stuck to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time
for injuries, errors and substitutions. The minutes here
given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only
an approximation.